The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-02-10

creased facility for shooting men and blow.
ing up cities and whelming hosts TO
instant death, 30 that we can kill a regi-
ment easier than we could once
kill q company, and kill q brigade
easier than we could ence kill regiment,
the patent Offices Of the world more busy
than ever in recognizing the enginery OF
destruction, the human race will after
awhile go fighting with one arm, and hob
bling with one foot, and stumbling along
with one eye, and some ir genious inventor,
inspired OF the archangel of all mischief,
will contrive machine that will bore
hole to the earth's center, and some des-
perate nation will throw into that hole
enough dynamite TO blow this hulk Of a
planet into fragments, dropping like me
teoric stones on surrounding stellar habi-
tations,
But this shall not be, for whatever else
let go l hang on to my Bible, which tells
me that the blacksmith's shop shall yet
come to its grandest use, when the warrior
and the husbandman shall enter it side by
side, and the soldier shall throw into it's
bank Of fires his sword, and the farmer
shall pick 1t up plOwshare, and the
straightest spear shall be bent into crook
at each end and then cut in two. and what
was one spear shall be two pruning forks.
Down with MOloch and up with Christi
Let no more war horses eat out of tho
manger where Jesus was born.
Peacei Forever roll off the SKY the black
pillars of smoke from the Marengos and
Salamancas md Borodnos ana Sedans and
Gcttysburgs of earthl And right after
them roll into the heavens the peaceful
vapors of the chimueys of farm houses,
aud asylums, and churches, and capitals Of
4 Nhrfr nj ha nlifrhf
strikes through these vapors they will
write in letters of jet and gold all over the
sky from horizon to zenith: "Glory to God
in the highest, and on earth peace, good will
toward menu Then let all the men of-war
fire broadsde and all the forts thunder
forth a resOunding volley, ana the earth be
girled with the cannonade over the final
victory Of the truth.
While thinking of these things I looked
from my window and the wind was vio-
lently blowing. And | saw from many
chimneys the smoke tossed in the air and
whirled in great velocity, volume after
volume fold after fold and carried on the
swift wind were tn. great piEars Of
smoke. And helped by Solomon in tho
text l saw the speed of the church symbol
lied. Do you realize the momentum the
church Of God is underl Why, the smoke
of chimney on the top Of Mount Wash
ington when the wind is blowing sixty
miles the hour is slow as compared with
the CELEBRITY OF good influences.
For fifty-nine centuries the devil had it
his own wav among the nations. Nearly
all the missionary movements have been
started within the century and see what
one century has done to recover the world
from tfty-nine centuries of devastation.
What great revivalsl What mighty
churchesl What saved milhonsi What
advancing ciyi!l2Ationl Ia all the United
States Great Britain, France, Ireland,
Germany, Italy, full freedom to worship
God according to conscience Along the
coasts Of China, Japan and Africa the bat
teries are planted which are to take all
these empires for God and civilization
From tn runs of Babylon and Assyra
and NInevch and the valleys Of the Me
combinations have been eXhumel proving
to all tair-minded men that the Bible is the
trueSt book ever written. The mythOlo-
gies of Egypt were found to have embodied
in them the knowledge of mans expulsion
from Paradise, and the sacrifice OF great
emancipator. Moses account of the crea-
ton, curroborated by the hammer of geOlO-
gists; the Oldest profane writers like
Hromus, HeIanicus and Berosus, confirm.
Tacitus and PIiny confirming the Bible ac-
counts of destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah;
Tacitus and Porphyry telling the same
story of Christ as Matthew and Luke told:
Macrobius telling of the massacre of chill
dren in Bethlehem, and Phlegon sketching
the darkness at the crucihxlon.
1t is demonstrated to all honest men that
1t is not 50 certain that William Cullen
Bryant wrote Thanatopsis or Longfellow
wrote Hiawatha as that God by the hand
of prophet and apostle wrote the Bible. All
the wise men in science and law and med
icine and literature and merchandise are
gradually coming to believe in Christianity,
and soon there will be no people who dis
believe in it, except those conspicuous
for lack of brain or men with two families,
who do not like the Bible because it re-
Dukes their swinish propensites.
The time is Fastening when there will be
no infidels left except libertines and har-
lots and murderers. Millions of Christians
where once there were thousands, and
thousands where once there were hun
dreds What bright evening this, the
evening of the nineteenth century, and
the twentieth century, which will dawn in
thirteen years from now, will, in my opin-
ion, bring universal victory for Christ and
the church, that now is marching on with
step double quick or, if you prefer the
figure Of the text, is being swept on in the
mighty gales of blessing, imposing and
grand and majestic and swift, like pillars
of smoke.
Oh, come into the church through Christ
the door, the door more glorious than that
of the Temple of Hercules, which had two
pillars, and one was gold and the other
emerald Come in today Come in and
be one of the eternal victorsl The world
you leave beh nj is poor world, and 1t
will burn and pass off like pillars of smoke.
Whether the final contiagration will start
il the coal mines Of Pennsylvania, which,
in some places, have for many years been
burning and eating into the heart OF the
mountains; or whether it shall begin near
the California geyser5, or whether from
out Of the furnaces of Cotopaxi and Vesu-
vius and Stromboli, it sirall burst forth
upon the astonished nations.
make no prophecy, but all biologists tell
us that we stand on the lid of world the
heart Of which is raging, roaring, awful
fame, and some day God will let the red
monsters out of their Imprisonment of cent
ures, and New York on fire in 1885 and
Charleston on fire in 1865, and Chicago on
fire in 1871, and Boston on fire in 1872 were
only like one spark from blacksmith's
forge as compared with that last universal
blaze which will be seen in other worlds.
But gradually the flames will lessen and
the world will become great living coal,
and that will take an ashen hue, and then
our ruined planet will begin to smoke,
and the mountains will smoke,
and the valleys will smoke, and
the islands will smoke, and the
seas will smoke, aud the cities will smoke,
AMI the five continents will be five pillars
of smoke But the black vapors will begin
to lessen in height and density, and then
will become hardly visible TO those who